Any Labour supporters feeling a little...

[CurlewKate]

.... nervous?

The poster that I replied to was clearly talking about legal and illegal migration. They said “allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants” which is clearly a reference to the overall net migration figures and not the much smaller small boats crossing number.

I think it’s also worth saying that illegal is not the same as small boats. Most illegal immigrants enter the country legally, not in small boats. Unlike many countries we don’t check when people leave the country, so are not good at picking up on people who have entered legally but overstayed.

Illegal migration is not in the hundreds of thousands.

Yes, numbers released in March by the Home Office are clear: illegal immigrants arriving by small boats in 2024 so far amount to 4,644. 4,644 across three months. If that trend continues for the rest of the year, that will amount to 18.5k in total. So definitely NOT hundreds of thousands.

Legal migration, which is necessary for the economy, absolutely dwarfs those numbers.

Posters should bother to do the research before making wild claims!

What about those that have landed & disappeared into the system- why do they feel the need to destroy paper & passports? You need to get your facts checked also!

Oh woe and thrice woe.
Give them a chance,Labour have inherited a horrendous situation. I think they know what they are getting into.
The rise of Reform? Has no one any morals? I don't want to live in that world.

Not disputing there will be some who slip through the net, but where's the proof those run into hundreds of thousands? That's the figure you claimed, so you must have the facts to back that up? Because I've now looked and can't find those numbers quoted anywhere.

A lot of immigrants (disproportionate to their numbers) work in the NHS. Without immigrants, the NHS would collapse in many places.

Increased demand on the NHS is caused mainly by an ageing (mostly non-immigrant) population and insufficient availability of social care (much of which is provided by immigrants).

I'm not saying that there are NO valid concerns about immigration. But this isn't one of them.

That is untrue, as you know. Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak received fines for partygate. Keir Starmer did not.

Stop trying to make the Tory low morals excusable by saying others share them. Roll around in your own shit, but don’t assume other people are there with you.

They don’t and are not.

Haven't they already set up a meeting to end the strikes next week. Who you are talking about is the Tories and what they did to the NHS. Tories don't like public services they pay for their health care and send their children to private schools. The Reform party is for the likes of you and the minority who think like you.

👍🏻

I dont think she has anything to be proud of.

No it just the tories who can’t have cake a beer

Becoming deputy Prime Minister of the whole country as a 44 year old working class women and you don't think she has anything to be proud of 😆

Well not when it was breaking the rule they implemented no. The police fines that they had to pay are a rather big clue on that one.

I'm feeling relieved, calm, more relaxed, like I can take my eye off the ball now because the grown ups have got it.

I'm excited about how different this country can be, and what we can achieve with a government which has a better solution to prison over-crowding other than telling the police to arrest less people (!)

Snap!

What is the difference between Boris having cake & beer & labour lot having curry & beers? Is because the tories implemented lockdown? 🤔 incidentally I dont agree with it one jot

The difference is that the rules were different. What Boris and co. did was against the rules in force at that time. What KS did was not against the rules which were in force at that time - which was not the same time frame. Beergate was investigated twice and nothing found. The impression people like you give is that you are sore losers.

No not really- you cleared up what the difference was 😊

@Mt61 what I cleared up was fact. You don't want to believe what I said, so go look it up. Clearly you believe that the poor Tories were hard done by and persecuted by the evil police. Which is hilarious.

I am not a Tory supporter

Then what rationale do you have for saying that the Beergate was exactly the same as Partygate? Because in law, it wasn't. And that is a fact.

Because at the time I was

You were what?

If that's a type then no, it wasn't. Do a little reading. Wanting to believe something doesn't make it so.

Hope those who voted Labour are happy now. The country will soon be overrun with immigrants using our NHS, benefits, housing and yes Labour wants to raise tax to cover these costs. Labour made a mess last time and almost bankrupt the country after inheriting a healthy public finances left by the Tories government in 1997. Oh and not forgetting that Labour sold the entire gold reserves at rock bottom price.